Ukrainian Defence Forces make tangible progress on Tavriia front – Commander of Tavriia Group of Forces

The Ukrainian Defence Forces have made tangible progress on the Tavriia front and are making headway.

Source: Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, Commander of the Tavriia Operational and Strategic Group of Forces; Hanna Maliar, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister, on Telegram

Details: Tarnavskyi said that units of Ukraine’s Rocket Forces and Artillery carried out 1,344 firing missions over the past 24 hours.

The Russian losses amounted to more than three companies with personnel either killed or wounded.

A total of 51 pieces of Russian military equipment were destroyed.

This includes three tanks, fourteen armoured combat vehicles (armoured personnel carriers and multi-purpose fully amphibious auxiliary armoured tracked vehicles), a Supercam UAV, a Orlan-10 UAV, a Merlin UAV, two 2A36 Giatsint-B howitzers, three 2C5 Giatsint-C howitzers, three 2C7 Pion self-propelled artillery systems, two 2C3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems, two 2A65 Msta-B howitzers.

Six Russian weapons storage points were also destroyed.

Meanwhile, Maliar notes the following: "you should not expect the offensive to be something swift. This is war".

At the same time, the deputy minister stresses that the Defence Forces are advancing daily: "Yes, it's gradual, but our troops are consolidating their positions and making steady progress."

Maliar reiterated that "only the Ukrainian military, who planned the offensive, can now assess how it is going".

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